EVE General Discussion

After years of running reactions to fund my low sec and null sec pvp fleets, with the upcoming changes moon mining i am already starting to feel the pinch and this has holted the fleets i once ran with incredible pride and enjoyment. The operation itself was 16 poses and i would buy everything from JITA and move it into my low sec system to react and move back to JITA to sell. This hole operation was fun, avoiding the gankers (not so successfully on occassions) avoiding war decs and trying to keep my operation safe.

I hope one day the market settles down and I can recreate the operation however I fear the change to moon mining is going to end the game for many players. The community aspect of eve is great however Fozzie has pretty much made a tedious operation more tedious more dull and has not taken into account the declining player base coupled with FTP accounts.

I've never wanted anybody to lose their job but wow, Fozzie has stirred up a storm that started 2+ years ago and since then every "great idea" has resulted in less players signing in. Cau you, CCP - Fozzie, Seagull etc, who keep saying they are listening to the player base actually listen to your player base and stop with the lip service please?

thanks

LOL - you completely forget about one really important thing, the players that make up these large alliances. There is no issue with this passive form of income and everyone expected asteriod belts to provide an additional method to collecting the resource, not an entire overhaul making it into a massive mining operation of which the alliance is still going to make huge amounts of isk from.

a properly organized alliance with a wing of rorquals will make leaps in productivity when this change comes.. ccp will look at the data (besides the rage fest since not all regions can do this) and decide to nerf it by the following year watch, wait, and see.

This, exactly this.

The amount of ISK from moons is huge, but that's kind of moot. The fact that all they had to do was haul the goo to a trade hub in order to collect their profit was the problem. Now they get to field people to actually earn the isk. Which is exactly what I initially said.

Reactions wont change much, they will just be done in a citadel now.

Moon mining however, yeah, not really happy about that as its funding my PvP atm.
Sure, alliances rake in cash hand over fist passively, but they have control of the expensive moons, the cheap ones they dive out to individuals for us to make our own money so that were not the guy in an interceptor during a mach fleet.

While I agree that something needs to be done, I think there should be a way for individual owners to still profit, perhaps have an npc mining fleet for hire at your citadel that takes up a hefty tax for what they mine for you so that theres still room for a player to bid on the job instead.